MER Article Land, Identity and the Limits of Resistance in the Galilee There has never been anything abstract about the longings of the Palestinians. The object of their longing has always been well defined: the places that had been left behind in 1948. For these places were, and still are, the dominant components of the Palestinian identity. -- Danny Rubinstein Laurie King-Irani • 10 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 2000) Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim, Roger Heacock and Khaled Nashef, eds. Landcapes of Palestine: Equivocal Poetry (Birzeit: Birzeit University Publications, 1999). Ahmad, Eqbal. Confronting Empire: Interviews with David Barsamian (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000). Amirahmadi, Hooshang. The Caspian Region a The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article Letters (Fall 2000) Kuwait MERIP's Iraq issue (MER 215) represented an opportunity to shape the magazine according to the needs of the new activism challenging Washington's policy towards Iraq-the movement against crippling economic sanctions, thrice-weekly bombings, the undermining of the United Nations and the regio (Author not identified) • 6 min read
MER Article Ruminations on Political Violence Texts Reviewed Bruce Hoffman, Inside Terrorism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998). Joseba Zulaika and William A. Douglass, Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Fables and Faces of Terrorism (New York: Routledge, 1996). Meredith Turshen and Clotilde Twagiramariya, eds., What Women Do in Wartime: Amy Zalman • 6 min read
MER Article Spatial Fantasies Rivka, the tragic protagonist of Amos Gitai's new film Kadosh, is unable to conceive a child. Her anxiety is acute. The ultra-Orthodox community of Me'ah She'arim in West Jerusalem, in which Rivka lives with her husband Meir, is known to ostracize its barren women. Seeking spiritual guidance, she le Rebecca L. Stein • 10 min read
MER Article Policing the Illicit Peripheries of Egypt's Tourism Industry Tourist destinations are never simply reducible to the sun, sand and sea they offer. The lucrative international trade associated with Third World tourism involves packaging and marketing areas of the world that are most devastated by contemporary economic conditions, essentially creating landscapes Laleh Behbehanian • 9 min read
